Part 1 of a new Panacea interview up now on Vinyl Meltdown.

Panacea’s new album THE RE ROUTE, out now.
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Back in ‘96 I did an instrumental mixtape where the beats switched up every 4 or 8 bars, which I then “screwed” or slowed down on my 4-track recorder. It was really on some burn-out sh*t. I didn’t know anything about DJ Screw or that chopped & screwed style, it just sounded cool to me. Thing is that when you were feeling normal, that tape was too trippy. That’s when my buddy Ned Flanders said i should do another one of those instrumental tapes, but not so burnt out.

I started this in 1999 and didn’t finish until 2001, because I kept going back and erasing whole sections of work. There ended up being over 150 beats on the mix cuz they switch up so quick, and I divided it into 3 sections: medium, fast, and slow, with my younger brother doing amazing intro’s in between; and within each section all the beats were blended together. People were copping this to rap over, play video games to, and just have as background music. One DJ in Rhode Island stole the cover idea, and another sucker stole the entire concept. Whatever for them, part 2 will be done when I stop seeing the beats as code and come back to earth.

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Check out this trademark video of Damu the Fudgemunk on the MPC replaying his beat for the “Walk in the Park Remix” he did for THE RE ROUTE!

Also, shouts to all the blogs showing love to THE RE ROUTE.

Check out the premier of Cool Calm Pete’s “Square 1 Remix” at Imageyenation.

THE RE ROUTE finally comes out this Tuesday!!!

Amazon has a preview link up so you can hear snippets of all the songs, including Amazon’s exclusive bonus track, “The Missing”.

Here is Mekalek’s remix of “Blue Ice”…. and the feeling is laid back.

One of my favorite skits of all time is the “killer tape” skit on Wu-Tang’s “Enter the 36 Chambers”. Raekwon yelling at Meth, asking where his killer tape (kung fu flick) is always got me. For me, i didn’t give a sh*t about kung fu tapes, but mixtapes, so i applied it to that. Like, if someone borrowed this mixtape from you and didn’t give it back, that’d be a serious effin problem.

My favorite line on here has gotta be “On the charge of being funky, the court found you innocent”. HAAAAAA!!! “Sincerely” by JUICE still hits me the same way now as it did then–a perfect song, and hearing Big L rap makes me f**kin sad he didn’t have a chance to make the impact he undoubtedly would have.

This is actually ripped from cassette. Most of this tape was done live and then i threw some little tidbits on top of it, and the reason most of the tracks are clean versions is cuz they were all marked to be cut up on the radio, so i just ran with the idea that Part One was for the children, just like Ol’ Dirty said about Wu-Tang at the grammys.

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You probably know by now that Panacea’s new album THE RE ROUTE comes out Tuesday (Jan 20) on iTunes and all of the other online music stores.

Today, Foreign Exchange producer Nicolay world-premiered his remix of “Pops Said”, which is on THE RE ROUTE, on his MySpace Page. CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT.

He says…
What’s up my people,
My friends K-Murdock and Raw Poetic aka PANACEA are some all around good dudes, and they drop good records too. They asked me to remix a cut from their 2007 album The Scenic Route (don’t sleep…cop it today) to be included in a fully remixed version of the album called The Re-Route. The track is called “Pops Said” (Nicolay Remix) and the album is available digitally on January 20th. Also included on the album are remixes by some personal favourites of mine, DJ Spinna and Aeon, as well as many others. Check it out, and I hope you enjoy the remix… it’s the first track in the player!
Truly yours,
Nicolay

And, for a quick flashback, here’s the video for the original version of Pops Said…

From Panacea’s upcoming album, THE RE ROUTE, out Tuesday, January 20 on iTunes, Amazon, Napster, etc, here’s Damu The Fudgemunk’s Remix of “Walk In The Park”.

Besides being Panacea’s DJ, Damu is an accomplished producer and street performer, as well as a member of the group Y-Society along with Insight.

Check out Dumi and Akim and their haywire dancer’s recent NYC performance of their first ever single “Doin Damage In My Native Language”!

Damage 2009 from galactus 22 on Vimeo.